Predicting lightning activity in Greece with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-13

  Giannaros, Theodore M ^a   Kotroni, Vassiliki ^a   Lagouvardos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Lightning prediction; Storm parameters; WRF model; ZEUS lightning detection network

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; LIGHTNING; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STORMS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; GREECE; LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; LIGHTNING DETECTION; LIGHTNING PARAMETERIZATION; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

LIGHTNING; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREECE;

EID: 84920283122     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.12.009     Document Type: Article

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